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Wiretap: A rare State of the Union anti-trickle-down tax plan

We already know the big news from tonight's State of the Union speech. Barack Obama will propose to modestly tax the rich in order...

Wiretap: Crusader and commander

Jelani Cobb's piece in the New Yorker is titled "A President and a King," and it seeks to place Barack Obama's presidency in context...

Littwin: Never mind the Bollocks, here’s Charlie Hebdo

We may not all be Charlie Hebdo, but we live these days in a Charlie Hebdo world. And you can find what we'll call a...

Wiretap: Holding the same ‘conservative views’ as David Duke

GOP leaders are looking for a way to ensure that a 2002 speech by Rep. Steve Scalise -- the No. 3 ranked House Republican--...

Keefe: New Years

Wiretap: Looking at de Blasio

In the wake of the killings of two New York City police officers, the rift between the mayor the police union may make it...

Wiretap: Really, though, what president could break up our national partisan...

The reason presidents fail these days is that we want something that they can't deliver. That's because we can't deliver it either. Living in...

Littwin: Watching Udall stride across the White House lawn

Mark Udall was on the Senate floor, probably for the last time, and giving 'em hell. He gave Barack Obama hell. He gave the...

Udall blasts CIA for lying, demands accountability

In a speech just ended on the floor of the U.S. Senate today, outgoing Colorado Sen. Mark Udall called out the CIA and President...

Wiretap: Living with the intelligence community we deserve

Barack Obama stepped lightly around the Senate Intelligence Report on CIA torture, knowing that he can condemn what happened in the dark days after...